Trump news at a glance: Anxiety in Chicago as Trump plans to send troops; postal traffic into US drops 80%
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Trump news at a glance: Anxiety in Chicago as Trump plans to send troops; postal traffic into US drops 80%
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Reports: USTA asks U.S. Open broadcasters to censor crowd reactions to Trump reut.rs/3V4rCpO
The Dodgers were one out away from a no-hitter in the bottom of the 9th in Baltimore. Jackson Holliday hit a homer to break it up and make it 3-1. And then the Orioles poured it on to win 4-3! Baseball is the best!
PRITZKER: “.. The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke.” @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
Justice Amy Coney Barrett Responds To Fears That SCOTUS Could Overturn Same-Sex Marriage
The crowd has no beginning and no end as it begins its march to the White House
Hear me out: according to CBS, only 250 troops are being sent to Chicago. See that crowd? 👇👇👇 Y'all know what to do.
Colorado now allows pharmacists to administer Covid-19 shots to ANYONE who wants one & is covered by insurance also
Good. The COVID vaccine is safe and effective, yet RFK Jr. and Trump are pushing anti-science conspiracy theories. Glad to see my state stepping up and keeping our residents healthy. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
A priest argues why it’s merciful to pray for Trump to die. One of the reasons he gives are the 14 million lives projected to be lost by Trump’s USAID cuts alone. When the priests are praying for Trump to die, it’s beyond over. I understand why the churches rang their bells for the protest in DC.
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Trump administration officials are perplexed by House Speaker Mike Johnson’s claims that Donald Trump was an FBI informant in the case against Jeffrey Epstein. More: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
When even Rand Paul thinks you’re despicable.
Tesla still would need to earn it first. Let's make sure they don't.
Musk’s Wealth 2012: $2 billion 2025: $436.3 billion Bezos’ Wealth 2012: $18.4 billion 2025: $244.2 billion Zuckerberg’s Wealth 2012: $17.5 billion 2025: $257.8 billion Federal Minimum Wage 2012: $7.25 2025: $7.25 It’s not the start of an oligarchy. — We’re in the thick of it.
“US Open broadcasters have been asked not to show any negative crowd reactions to Donald Trump at Sunday’s men’s final.” Email sent to broadcasters asks “to refrain from showing any disruptions or reactions in response to the president’s attendance in any capacity.”
Changing the name should work
Google is ending support for 1st/2nd gen Nest thermostats, sparking frustration over "smart" device longevity. The discussion highlights risks of cloud dependency and planned obsolescence in IoT, questioning the sustainability of current tech trends. #IoT 1/6
#RFKJr has now lost the @nypost.com. His days as HHS Secretary are numbered. Keep up the pressure—let’s get him out the door. nypost.com/2025/09/04/o...
💯. Once the Murdochs turn on you, you’re finished. Rupert is thinking about that time he was one of the first in the world to get the COVID vax on a special flight to the UK. Keep up the pressure, we can break RFK Jr and notch one win in the war against fascism.
We’re excited for the Trump Admin to learn about BATTERIES (we have them here in California, and they’ve helped the Golden State shift to green, clean energy AND keep the lights on). 🔗 gov.ca.gov/2025/05/19/sin…
Over the decades I have spoken at all of the service academies and War Colleges. They've all known I was "a critic" of many policies This is a really, really ominous development (AFAcad cancelling a speaker, in endowed-lecture series, because she has criticized Trump.) gazette.com/military/air...
I missed the part where Democrats said they wanted to send US troops into Russia. And why is it necessary for him to always debate fictitious Democratic positions that he invents in his twisted brain rather than actual ones? Too tough to argue against the real ones?
This is frankly one of the worst things Donald Trump has ever posted, which is really saying something
Agree And not a single member of frightened GOP Senate/House has dared speak up (Hey J Barrasso, Georgetown BA/MD guy. Hey M Lee, you "care" about states' rights. Hey T Tillis /J Ernst, you're not running again. Hey S Collins, with your "concern." Hey R Paul, you're a big libertarian. Hey...)
Chicago’s mayor & governor react to the president declaring war on the city
“It is not a radical idea to say that every man, woman and child in America can have a decent standard of living.”
As someone who handled war crimes cases, I am not easily shocked by what nations can do. This statement by Vance though that the US military can basically kill whomever they want even when it’s a war crime is shocking, revolting, deplorable, and a sign that more murder is in the offing.
Online this morning, NYT update from "Harvard is about to cave" team. Today's update: Well, actually..... See headline below. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/06/u... For context of this narrative, please see my piece yesterday fallows.substack.com/p/harvard-vs... (Full timeline before paywall.)
I'll say again: This matters. For months NYT has been pushing "Harvard is about to cave" line. That line is 100% in MAGA's interest. Every other institution will think, "If not even Harvard can stand up, how could we." Today, NYT: Oh, I guess it's a disagreement WITHIN THE TRUMP TEAM.
All Jackson needs to say is that Trump will live to 300 and he could become the first Fleet Admiral since Chester Nimitz
As you know, I care a great deal about teaching and teachers. I wanted to share a piece written by a Minneapolis public school teacher titled “I’m Having Some Thoughts About Teaching.” Give it a read and let me know your thoughts. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/a-teacher-speaks
When Nicolae Ceaușescu gave the last speech of his life, before patriots broke in and captured him - then executed him - he had loudspeakers playing sounds of cheering to cover the booing. I guess the executioners didn't get the message.
This will be a sad FAFO awakening for them.
Some people
The richest 100 billionaires in the U.S. have a net worth totaling $3.86 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is collectively worth $4 trillion. Read that back. Folks, this is what oligarchy looks like.
FAFO 😂😂😂😂😂
This would fit an Occam's Razor analysis.
So I’m pretty sure I remember this right. But in one of those interviews I believe Michael Wolf said that Epstein suspected Trump of dropping a dime on him to the authorities. They got in a dispute over a real estate deal. That was their falling out. Trump was trying to buy an estate that …
So if Trump was an undercover Epstein informant, that means he worked for Robert Mueller and was part of the deep state.
Rep. Quigley: It's time to watch what this president is doing. It's instructive in history to remember that, often tyrants are elected democratically at first….
Tbh harassing foreign experts is a great way to reduce the trade deficit by turning America into an emerging economy lead by a personalistic strongman leading a paramilitary of petite tyrants that isn’t worth investing in
Day 5: Now in Xi’an and visited the Terracotta Army
The other thing is that it's patently ridiculous to act like you're doing Apocalypse Now by sending ~800 one-weekend-a-month warehouse managers and insurance adjusters to stand around kicking rocks for 29 days
I really resent my tax dollars being spent on this
Who do they think this actually hurts?
Yes, I too find it more peaceful here and not at all filled with constant outrage
How is this not a screaming massive headline across every news site? This is insane, a virtual declaration of civil war. We fought a revolution to not be subjected to this kind of tyranny
If you're protesting ICE in Chicago, let me know at sheryl@weikallaw.com if you need free legal training or legal support. If you're arrested protesting ICE, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.
After Mark Zuckerberg told President Trump that Meta would invest $600 billion by 2028, the CEO confessed to the president that he 'wasn't sure what number [Trump] wanted to go with.' The formula: promise some big number and make it up on the spot.
This hot mic Zuckerberg moment show their numbers are all lies, undercutting Trump’s entire economic agenda. In a rational world every media outlet would be leading with it.
Me too.
This was the turnout for Steve Bannon’s speech yesterday. Seriously, bigger than I would have expected
There’s not a single Republican lawmaker with the basic civic decency to say this is fundamentally wrong. History will condemn each and every one of them.
We have a lot of bases inside China and Russia
Exclusive: Bill Pulte accused Fed Governor Lisa Cook of fraud. His relatives filed housing claims similar to hers. Via Reuters
Nice schadenfreude here, Reuters dug up Bill Pulte's father & stepmother claiming two houses as their primary residence, and when Reuters asked Michigan about it, Michigan yanked their homestead exemption.
Our lab at Yale literally studies government suppression of outbreak reporting. Please: don't promote unverifiable reports from anonymous accounts. They're very likely to be false, and it boosts unreliable actors. (If this is happening, I suspect CDC sources know how to text a journalist just fine.)
NEW: Trump has targeted political foes — including Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook — for claiming more than one primary residence on their loan papers. But ProPublica found that at least three of the president’s Cabinet members have done the same thing.
The most important thing to know is that the named was changed from the Dept of War to the Dept of Defense in 1949 BY CONGRESS in an amend to the National Security Act of 1947. And it can only be changed back by an act of Congress. Not by a Presidential “re-brand.” www.nytimes.com/article/trum...
A thread worth reading. Imagine, for one second, commanders like George C. Marshall. Dwight Eisenhower. Chester Nimitz. Joseph Stillwell, Hap Arnold, etc or countless combatants like George HW Bush or John F Kennedy—real "war-fighters" all—talking in this "I'm a real HE-man!!" cosplay fashion.
(NPR) Great summary article on the cities that Trump is focused on with regard to ICE and Nat'l Guard intervention. Big focus by cities on informing people of their RIGHTS, what to expect, and how to respond. www.npr.org/2025/09/06/n...
Despite what his far-right American admirers believe, Orbán is not popular in his own country. A lot of his staying power is just that: inertia, which has given rise to a feeling in Hungary that he is inevitable. Yet things in Hungary have started to move.
Keep advocating! “Kerry Kennedy, sister of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has joined her nephew, former Massachusetts Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy III, calling on her brother to resign… “Medical decisions belong in the hands of trained and licensed professionals, not incompetent and misguided leadership”
Trump AI version of his takeover of CHI. Chipocalypse Now
The better question is whether working people can exist in the city they built.
had a conversation with a prominent pundit recently who did not seem to realize that the departments of the executive branch are congressional creations, so not surprised at this
This @washingtonpost.com editorial doesn’t make it past the second paragraph without a glaring (and telling) factual error. President Washington didn’t create the War Department in 1789; *Congress* did: www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...
Ok, I did not know it was possible to completely lose your entire second language. 😨 My 12yo kid still has trouble telling left vs right since he got Covid. It’s jarring cuz before Covid, he was able to watching taekwondo on zoom and immediately map it to the proper side. #longcovidkids
It's a constant creepy doll fake smile tho.
I spent the evening making chocolate chip cookies with my kids so at least there’s that. Honestly, I am resolved to find more joy just so I can sustain the onslaught. We all need more joy.
Missed this from this morning. Great news in Washington: COVID vaccine available to all in WA 6 months and older, state says | The Seattle Times share.google/O2e3HhjgwQFx...
BREAKING: A federal judge blocks the Trump administration's ending of legal protections for 1.1 million Venezuelans and Haitians.
I miss the Washington Post.
No one has been able to invent a technological innovation that is better for learning than simply reading books and getting together in small groups to talk about them.
Every night before I go to sleep, I ask myself one...very serious question: How many risks did I take today? (and every night...my answer is a non-zero number) I understand that without enough of us willing to take risks...day, after day...after day...we won't survive this. That...is unacceptable.
I wrote about Anthropic's $1.5 billion class action lawsuit settlement over pirated ebooks and why I think that, bizarrely, this may count as a WIN for Anthropic simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/6/a...
Umm … it’s pretty stupid.
Navy SEALs killed three guys diving for shellfish, knifed their lungs to sink their bodies, scuttled a secret mission against a country with 50 nuclear warheads, and then many of those involved got promoted www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/u...
It’s really striking when you see the side by side video footage of how RFK Jr. contradicted himself at the Senate hearing. www.washingtonpost.com/video/politi...
JB Pritzker: “The president knows so little about the government and he cares so little about delivering anything that talking to him is a useless endeavor. I’m about delivering for the people of my state, he’s about delivering for himself.“
"The credibility of our monetary system, the credibility of our financial markets, depends on the perceived and actual independence of the Federal Reserve system. They're playing with economic fire here, not just legal fire but economic fire." @gtconway.bsky.social with @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social
An ICE raid at a 3,000-acre Hyundai site in Georgia led to the arrests of over 450 people, including South Koreans. The site was built by Hyundai to make EVs. The South Korean foreign ministry called the arrests an "unjust infringement" of their rights. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Y’all are worried about “civics” education and these guys missed the “milk maids with cowpox” classes, Louis Pasteur, Watson & Crick, and Gregor Mendel. I want the names of their elementary and middle schools.
At a time in history when the most influential leaders of the U.S. need to stand up loudly and clearly for the rule of law, democracy, and decency, they are leading the charge in the opposite direction — fawning over the most dangerous authoritarian America has ever witnessed.
Changing the name of the Department of Defense will cost billions.We could build units for all unhoused veterans. Or give service members a pay raise so 35K active duty members wouldn’t have to rely on food stamps. Or… or… or…
Build your factory here. 🤡 @apnews.com apnews.com/article/us-s...
Where are the red Make America Great Again hats out in the fields? You know, the same people who swore immigrants were “taking their jobs.” Keep snatching hard-working folks who are just trying to support their families and don’t be shocked when this becomes the new norm.
Please make it make sense. Why do we do this to ourselves?
He was also convinced that, surely, victims of gun violence would have their medical bills covered by the government. He absolutely could not accept the idea that they would have to pay for their recovery themselves.
Every once in a while I tell people from other countries about how the health insurance system works in the US and they are aghast. Yesterday a guy straight up didn’t believe me when I said people can die because of not being able to afford medicine. He was sure I meant in the distant past.
Florida’s move on vaccine mandates will lead to avoidable illnesses and deaths.
With @dahlialithwick.bsky.social the growing—and possibly unprecedented—lower court revolt against the Supreme Court: slate.com/news-and-pol...
So maybe the problem wasn’t with the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics?
WATCH: Gov. Jared Polis explains how he is making the covid vaccine accessible in Colorado despite federal restrictions – and his past support for RFK Jr.’s nomination. “Look at the science, look at the data. Vaccines are safe.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGFI...
they're just gonna try to lie their way through it
Zuckerberg saying Meta intends to spend at least 600 billion in the US Zuckerberg at the end caught on a hot mic
